[HN Gopher] Google's Switch to Android Is on the App Store
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Google's Switch to Android Is on the App Store
Author : nateb2022
Score : 27 points
Date : 2022-07-26 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (apps.apple.com)
| patmcc wrote:
| Apple has the same thing on the Play Store -
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.move... -
| so really seems only fair.
| adamrezich wrote:
| now each walled garden has an escape hatch into each other
| cowtools wrote:
| Is android a walled garden? There are open-source
| distributions of Android like CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/),
| LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/), GrapheneOS
| (https://grapheneos.org/)
| jsight wrote:
| Its a walled garden with a relatively accessible door. And
| the garden's pretty nice too, nice enough that most don't
| leave for the perilous world outside of it.
|
| Unfortunately, some of the security related moves lately
| have also made living outside of it a little more
| difficult.
| highwaylights wrote:
| Android isn't the walled garden. The Play Store is.
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| They are neutered by threats from Google. Lineage had to
| remove the ability to spoof permissions to appease their
| overlord.
| Dig1t wrote:
| Wow I didn't know that, do you have a link?
| 63 wrote:
| I still recall the outrage when Apple published their first app
| on Android and it turned out to be Move to IOS. It seems strange
| that it took so long for the opposite service to appear.
| cowtools wrote:
| It's not strange to me. iOS is far more restrictive in the type
| of programs it allows you to run and distribute, whereas
| Android allows sideloading and rooting.
|
| It's a variant of popper's paradox I suppose.
| JacobThreeThree wrote:
| >iOS is far more restrictive in the type of programs it
| allows you to run and distribute, whereas Android allows
| sideloading and rooting.
|
| True, although lately they've been under more regulatory
| scrutiny so I highly doubt something like this would get
| disallowed, especially if the equivalent app is allowed on
| Android.
| cowtools wrote:
| Depending on the government to step in and regulate
| corporate control is a fail-deadly system for freedom and
| should be avoided.
|
| The likelihood of the ruling government to support the
| interests of its citizens is dependent on the power
| (negotiating leverage) that the individual citizens have
| over large government-controlled institutions (inc.
| coporations). Authoritarian systems produce generally
| compounding effects, so the idea that we should just sit
| around and do nothing while they compound is dangerous.
| When the time comes that protesting surveilance,
| censorship, etc. is dire then it already be too late
| because government will have the powers of surveilance,
| censorship, etc. on its side to squash dissent.
|
| It is better to depend on systems (like FOSS) that are
| fail-safe for freedom. That is- they naturally err on the
| side of individual liberty. This is because authoritarian
| societies are non-recoverable and have to be rebooted by
| adjacent (free) societies.
| mtgx wrote:
| citizenkeen wrote:
| pauper
| cowtools wrote:
| the meek shall inherit the earth!
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